George Curry is the former editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service. He was also editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, which, under his leadership, won more than 40 national journalism awards. Curry is a former Washington correspondent and New York bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. He was also a reporter for Sports Illustrated and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2003, the National Associatiom of Black Journalists named him "Journalist of the Year."
His column, "Beyond the Spin," appears every other Thursday on The Inquirer's Commentary Page.
A year after Obama's election, America's racial rifts are deep and persistent.
When Barack Obama was elected president, 70 percent of Americans were convinced that race relations would improve as a result. A year later, however, optimism about solving race problems in the United States has dropped to where it was nearly 50 years ago, according to a recent Gallup Poll.
The Martha Stewart brand is affixed to everything from cooking shows to magazines. So it was surprising when Stewart, a former stockbroker, was charged with risking millions of dollars and her carefully crafted reputation on a trading scheme that saved her about $50,000.
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Before Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choice to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, could get outside the White House gate after the announcement of her nomination, conservatives were already on the attack.
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Despite efforts to portray himself more of a centralist, Barack Obama is decidedly liberal. Notwithstanding efforts to make John McCain appear to be a maverick, he is definitely conservative, having voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time in the last session of Congress, according to Congressional Quarterly.
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